Simpson Elizabeth
Immunology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK.
Immunology. 2008 Jan;123(1):13-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2567.2007.02775.x.
The history of regulatory T cells goes back to the realisation that T cells could provide 'help' for antibody responses: the obverse of this is their ability to hold them in check. This brief personal overview follows the initial designation of T cells as 'suppressor' and the various hypotheses, some now disproved, put forward for their mechanism of action. We now cautiously label them T regulatory cells, but realise they do not control not all immune regulation. They probably operate through several mechanisms, and some of these are discussed.
调节性T细胞的历史可以追溯到人们认识到T细胞能够为抗体反应提供“帮助”:反之,它们也有抑制抗体反应的能力。这篇简短的个人综述追溯了T细胞最初被命名为“抑制细胞”的过程,以及为其作用机制提出的各种假说,其中一些现在已被推翻。我们现在谨慎地将它们标记为调节性T细胞,但也认识到它们并不掌控所有的免疫调节。它们可能通过多种机制发挥作用,本文将对其中一些机制进行讨论。